WIDE OPEN SPACES

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1.   Who doesn't know what I'm talking about ?

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    Who's never left home, who's never struck out,

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    to find a dream and a life of their own,

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    a place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.

 

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2.    Many precede and many will follow,

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    a young girl's dream's, no longer hollow.

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    It takes the shape of a place out West,

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    but what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed. She needs

 

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    Wide open spaces,            room to make her big mistakes.

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    She needs       n...ew  faces, she knows the high stakes.

 

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2.     She travelled this road as a child,

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    wide-eyed and grinning, she never tired.

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    But now she won't be coming back with the rest,

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    if these are life's lessons, she'll take this test. She needs

 

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    Wide open spaces,            room to make her big mistakes.

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    She needs       n....ew  faces, she knows the high stakes.

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    She knows the high stakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4.    As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"

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    Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"

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    She says, it didn't seem like that long ago,

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    when she stood there and let her own folks know, she needed

 

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    Wide open spaces,            room to make her big mistakes.

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    She needs       n....ew  faces, she knows the high stakes.

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    She knows the high stakes.

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  She knows the high stakes,         she knows the high stakes,

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    She knows the high stakes.

 

(capo 2nd)             

 

    (Dixie Chicks)